"Portfolio Management:
I’m looking at and referring to the Young Folk Portfolio in this comment. The objective for this portfolio is Income & Growth so I suppose one of any age might have an interest.
I have a portfolio market value objective and an income cash flow objective for this portfolio every year and I know where it needs to be at the end of every year over the next 30 years.
These objectives were established at the end of 2009. Starting portfolio value $42K.
Portfolio Value Goal: $3M
Portfolio Annual Dividend Goal: $120K
At the end of 2021, in order to be on schedule, the portfolio value needed to $235,536.37. – The current portfolio value as of today is $333,962.82. – So it is ahead of schedule.
At the end of 2021 the annual dividend total needed to be $3,226.73. – The dividends for November and December aren’t in yet but Simply Safe Dividends has the forward 12 month dividend cash flow at $7,815. – Again, well ahead of schedule.
Since the portfolio is ahead of schedule, it does allow me to make adjustments as I see fit and what I plan on doing in 2022 is to look at the long held positions and see how their total performance stands against producing a respectable rate of return.
In looking at the holdings I notice that long held DUK, O and MKC have been some of our worst performing companies. These companies, due to the length of time they have been held, and through periodic buying and reinvesting of dividends, have grown to being overweight positions. I do not want under-performing companies to be overweight. I prefer for outperforming companies to be overweight.
SOLUTION:
TSLA and NVDA have been great performers in the time I have held them. I have built them up to oversized positions and will continue adding as long they continue their outperformance pace.
I have trimmed companies like O, DUK and MKC back to full positions and added to high performing companies like DE, HD and others.
I don’t wish to liquidate companies like O, DUK and MKC, in fact there may come a time when I decide to start adding again, but while they are underperforming, I don’t want oversized positions either.
Not a recommendation for others. – Just some food for thought."